Nine Super League rebel clubs retain ECA membership

Doha: The European Club Association (ECA), led by its Chairman Nasser Ghanim Al Khelaifi, yesterday announced that it will accept requests made by nine clubs to retain ECA membership, completing the reintegration of the breakaway clubs into European football for the 2019-2023 ECA membership cycle. 

Six English clubs - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - will be members of ECA again along with AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid. After an exhaustive process of re-engagement by the clubs and re-assessment by ECA over recent months, the Association's Executive Board took into consideration the clubs’ acknowledgement that the so-called European Super League (ESL) project was not in the interests of the wider football community and their publicly communicated decisions to abandon the Project completely.